dogslife

I'm just now getting to listening to that song you sent me. (My defense - I hardly check my spam-logged hotmail account these days, tending to reach first for the mighty gmail.)

I can't find lyrics anywhere!

It's the type of song that would fit in on the High Fidelity soundtrack. For some reason, songs that remind people of me tend to fit nicely on the High Fidelity soundtrack.

I think I may be becoming a cliche in my old age.

In totally unrelated tidbit news, I found the greatest bubble tea of all time in a food court in Brampton.

Lucky, lucky man.

The invitation's always there, and i certainly don't blame you for not wanting to hang out. There's so much to do in NYC, and while I try to take advantage of it when I can, I probably still spend most of my time doing "regular" stuff like working, going out to bars and friend's places, seeing movies, etc. And if you're only here for a limited time, why do the sort of thing that you can do at home when you have so many other opportunities that you can't usually do? So don't feel bad - just come back.

I love Jarmusch, but "Coffee and Cigarettes" blew. Hard. Except for Alfred Molina.

"Dead Man' on the other hand, is wonderful. "Ghost Dog" is even better IMHO.

What the fuck?

while I was eating at a restaurant last night in my safe hometown of Pasadena, someone was slashing all the tires iin parking lot. The slashed the tires of the car next to mine and the one two cars over to the other side. How's that?

Oh yeah, and here's another report straight from my hometown of Mar Vista, a relatively suburban neighborhood, I grew up next to this professor's family. When they got divorced, I started hearing strange noises. Everyone sort of ignored the multiple cars and people, and I could not see through the bouganvillia separating my window from their backyard. One sunny day, the police came and found a man chained up half dead in the garage. The bathtubs were filled with vomit. And my 15 year old ears were not privy to the rest of the details.

Everyone seems to be moving.... I'm staying in my place. And quite happy about that, to be honest. Just out of curiousity - what constitutes and expensive toronto apartment?

Epilexcellent is such an awesome new word that I'm going to use it to describe every instance in which my brother wakes me up in the middle of the night with a seizure.

I like Bill Frisell, I need the new album.

I have never heard any Bill Frisell. This may well make me a bad person.

I DID however pick up that White Stripes album you recommended today. I shall endeavour to listen to it on the drive south tomorrow. If not, it'll get added to priority rotation at the office.

Full report forthcoming.

I did really like the doorbell track.

Based on what I did like about this album, I will consider picking up another from their catalogue. What would you recommend for the guy who's shaken to his soul by Blue Orchid, yet left utterly unmoved by Seven Nation Army?

(Full disclosure - I used to do "Fell in Love WIth A Girl" in my old band.)

I find it very interesting that I don't recognize a single song - by title, at least - on that album.

I'll pick it up.

Of course it is. Wouldn't you?

There's hope for you yet. Maybe someday you'll be cool enough to score Wayne Chung's second-hand babes.

I think the formula was something like:

(total 'infidels' in holy land)*(number of years western governments spent badly ruling homeland)^(megalomaniacal false leaders pandering to lowest common denominator of largely uneducated, poor masses in societies with little social mobility)

The equation still doesn't balance, though, because on the other side of the equals sign you've got a city that survived the Black Plague, invasion by the Romans and their various proxies, the Blitz, and one big-ass fire.

I had to tell you that I'm in love with your Shel Silverstein tattoo. Absolutely had to.

On another note, if someone finally explains the big terrorism picture to you, be a dear and tell me, too.

wow just looking at the tattoo group and jeez yours is by far one of the finest ive seen... very nice

Yeah, even less than once a week and the calluses will go away. I played in high school, my fingers retain the memory.

I'm totally not a body art guy, and I probably never will be.

But good golly, that's awesome.

That is the most wicked tattoo I've seen in a good while.

I'm totally mad that I didn't think of it first